Skeleton Jack!

Jack is still just a liiiiittttle bit too young to go trick or treating (and he’s usually asleep by 7, anyway!), so we took him to a kids’ Halloween party on the 29th. He had tons of fun running around with all the other little ghouls and goblins and chowing some string cheese that looked like nasty fingers, bwahahaha!

He’s at an age where if anything sticks out, feels weird, or is even remotely removable, it comes off in a matter of seconds. So a big elaborate costume wouldn’t work this year. We dressed him up as a glow-in-the-dark skeleton. It had a matching hat—which he wouldn’t wear, of course. He was still super cute, anyway.

Here’s some video of him playing a bean bag game with another kid. Note how he just sits there quietly and observes the other kid while he completely spazzes out. Heh heh heh.

We didn’t decorate the inside of the house this year (ran out of time), but Brian did put the tombstones up in the yard again.

The "graveyard" out front

The fiery front porch

Brian skulking in the shadows as the Grim Reaper

Because Jack does go to sleep so early, we had to make sure none of the kids made it up to the front door to ring the doorbell this year. Brian skulked in the shadows of the front porch where he couldn’t be seen until the kids started walking up the driveway, then he would slowly stand up and usually freak them out. There were a couple little 7-year-olds who actually turned around and ran off. Hahahahahahaha. Hilarious! Stuff like that makes his day.

I’m not sure what we’re going to do next year when Jack actually goes trick or treating! Wonder which of us will stay home and hand out candy and which one of us will take Jack? Will leave it up to Brian, but I’m far more interested in seeing my own child than everyone else’s! We can probably hit a handful of houses on our street and will then we can come back and hand out candy. I think our neighborhood would be disappointed if we weren’t participating… most of the kids make a point of telling us how cool our house is. Plus, let’s just be honest here: I think we give out the most (and best) candy. Ha!

I had a twinge of sadness last night because it was SO QUIET without Cheeto barking up a shitstorm all night. It drove him crazy that all these random kids kept invading our yard. Heh heh heh. Even though he was always a huge pain in the ass on Halloween and I usually spent all night messing with him instead of enjoying myself, I still missed him.

Anyway, I hope all of you had a fun (and safe) Halloween!